Letter to the Editor: What is Homeland Security up to?

Presidential candidate Barack Hussein Obama, in a 2008 speech, made the following statement: "We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've gotta have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well funded."

I'm concerned when I read that the Department of Homeland Security has, without justification, purchased nearly 3,000 mine-resistant ambush-protected armored personnel carriers, almost 2 billion rounds of ammunition and associated weapons, and other weapon systems. I've not seen these acts reported on national media. Significant in all of this is the fact that the DHS has no war mission or war-making authority. As defined by the Secretary of DHS their mission is: "We must guard against terrorism; we must secure our borders; we must enforce our immigration laws; we must improve our readiness for, response to, and recovery from disasters; and we must unify the department so that we can even more effectively carry out our mission."

It's my opinion these Obama administration recent purchases stand out as a blatant threat of war against our nation's citizens. Congress has to have these facts at their fingertips but they seem to ignore them and refuse to take action.

If left unresolved, we who have sworn to "defend the United States Constitution against all enemies, both foreign and domestic" are left with no option but to prepare to defend ourselves, and the U.S. Constitution. We have no choice but to honor our oaths.

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Letter to the Editor: What is Homeland Security up to?

From B.J. Brown, Mountain Home: Presidential candidate Barack Hussein Obama, in a 2008 speech, made the following statement: